I didn’t own a car until I was well into my twenties. I wasn’t trying to make a statement, though. I just couldn’t afford one. My first car was inherited, and like the two that followed it, used. I paid $2,000 for my stepfather’s old Toyota after he died. It was so battered the tailpipe […]
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I got such a great response to yesterday’s question, I’d like to try it again. Finish this sentence: If I had to move suddenly and could take only five things, they’d be … Click here to read how people finished this sentence yesterday: “Happiness is …”
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Over the past several months, I’ve written about some of the things that motivated me to begin simplifying my life: money, moving, personal growth and the desire to have a clean, comfortable home. Here’s one more in the form of a guest post I just did for Tammy at Rowdy Kittens, a small-house fan and […]
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The deadline to enter our home-staging contest is 5 p.m. tomorrow. Neil Bindelglass, owner of Let Me Organize You, will stage two rooms in the winner’s home and give free advice to two runners-up. Professional home staging can cost thousands of dollars, and a tough real estate market could make it even more valuable. Details […]
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I have two shoeboxes full of letters and cards from friends and family, some from as far back as high school. Last fall, I had three. Getting rid of clutter meant going through some of those old memories and deciding what to keep and what to recycle. Some decisions were remarkably easy to make. Christmas, […]
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I’ve finally converted my old home movies from VHS to DVD, but preserving family history is never easy. David Pogue has written extensively about the march of time and technology. In this week’s column, he broaches the subject of “data rot” with Dag Spicer, curator of the Computer History Museum in Silicon Valley. On home […]
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I’m not done getting rid of my clutter, but I’ve made a lot of progress; I own about half of what I did this time last year. I don’t regret my decision to part with the things I did; most of them have gone on to better homes, and I regained valuable space. Here are […]
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